The Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission is again stepping in to speed the resolution of a complaint that cable systems aren’t dealing fairly with an independent cable network, this time to the benefit of the NFL Network. The Media Bureau today withdrew from an administrative judge the...
A House Energy and Commerce Committee report released Wednesday concludes that the Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Kevin Martin has a record of “egregious abuses of power, suppression of information and manipulation of data,” in the words of the chairman who oversaw an investigation...
The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., today ruled to uphold the FCC’s decision to require cable systems to make the digital signals of local broadcast must-carry stations viewable to all subscribers, including analog subscribers. The decision was made despite protests from cable programmers...
The Federal Communications Commission’s media bureau is giving the NFL Network, WealthTV and a Baltimore/Washington sports network a major victory in their battle for carriage on cable systems, saying there is sufficient evidence the channels are being discriminated against to justify administrative...
The cable industry is urging Congress to insist broadcasters put off any retransmission battles and any chance local TV signals could be dropped from their cable systems until after the digital TV switchover happens Feb. 17. “I want to raise a flag that a storm is coming,” Kyle McSlarrow, president-CEO...
The movie industry today warned the Federal Communications Commission about acting to implement a la carte pricing of cable TV channels even at the wholesale level. In a filing today, the Motion Picture Association of America urged the FCC to reject consumer groups’ request to let cable providers pick...